Corey Amthor Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• P&L responsibility trading natural gas futures with profitable results 6 out of 7 years in a difficult changing market
• Responsible for pricing and execution of customer hedging deals for ethanol and grain facilities

• Involved in all aspects of the business including trading, marketing, fund raising, legal, human resources and business operations.
• Member of a 2 person team that marketed a hedge fund on Wall Street that resulted in raising $250 million trading capital

• Head of Calpine’s West Desk. This desk had commodity gross margin responsibility for Calpine’s western energy system that included 4000 MW merchant and QF electric generation, 100,000 mmbtu/day natural gas production.
• Managed a staff of 50 that included traders, analysts and mid office personnel.
• Successfully managed Calpine’s merchant portfolio through the power market run-up and subsequent collapse of 2001-02 and the volatile natural gas markets of 2002, during which time Calpine’s realized spark spread was.
• Worked closely with the deal structuring and origination team on electricity supply contracts to utilities, municipals and industrial companies.

Houston, Texas Area

• Co-founded this highly successful proprietary trading business at Statoil that became one of the largest players in the West power markets.
• Profitable 9 out of 10 quarters making $13 million in 2 ½ years starting with $600,000 in risk capital.

Houston, Texas Area

• Started up the West Power Desk for DuPont Power and established the energy trading and risk management operations.

Greater Omaha Area

• Responsible for price risk management of ConAgra’s $150 MM electricity budget that encompassed over 300 hundred facilities.
• Primary responsibilities included identifying with plant managers ways to economically optimize energy usage at the plants; negotiation with utilities for the most economical energy prices; and clarifying plants energy.
• Specialized in locational arbitrage of the physical commodity for ConAgra's Feed Ingredient Merchandizing group.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Agricultural Economics